Who wants to bet that the accused man never actually read the Bible in its entirety (Or even only the New Testament)? He needs a “church” to read and interpret the Bible for him, which can lead to a lot of trouble.

“A criminal complaint says Johnson told a detective that his church…” Church, not the Bible, dictating what is right and wrong. Heh…..

and they are worried about middle east Muslim extremist , we got our own kind you don’t have to travel around globe just to find some extremist to kill.

I hate these religious people they are always disruptive to other people’s life everywhere , they should be prosecuted hard and put in jail so hopefully they will learn their lessons and keep their crazy ideas to themselves.

There was that guy a few weeks ago that killed an abortion doctor , now this. It is really upsetting.

Reminds me of an old joke. Guy’s gonna marry a Jewish gal and rabbi is telling the things he can and can’t do with a Jew. When it comes to sex, he can screw in any position except face to face because that might lead to dancing.

I was taught that dancing, playing cards, and going to movie theaters were wrong. The Bible doesn’t say anywhere that it is a sin to dance or go to movie theaters. In fact, the wife of King David was made barren for criticizing David for dancing.

I dance Latin dance, which includes salsa, meringue, and bachata. All require some degree of touching. Some of the people I dance with are Christians too, and they don’t view dancing as a sin.

This guy committed a sin by attacking the dance instructor. We are supposed to be like Christ and Jesus didn’t go around tasing people for what is legalism. Jesus actually condemned legalism.

#1 wrote, “He needs a ‘church’ to read and interpret the Bible for him, which can lead to a lot of trouble.”

Indeed it can! Unfortunately, that is precisely the situation in which the vast majority of Christians throughout history have found themselves. Until the invention of the printing press and increasing literacy rates, very few Christians even in the developed world had any direct access to the Bible. They were entirely dependent upon the Church (or others) for any instructions on what to believe about their Creator. Even today, anyone who is illiterate is completely dependent on someone else to tell them about the god they must believe in for salvation, and they have no grounds to disagree with anything they are told.

You would almost think that an omnipotent Creator who really wanted a relationship with his precious humans could have devised some sort of system for communication that wasn’t so easily corrupted to serve the purposes of anyone claiming to represent the Church.

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